AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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AMD Radeon RX 6800S

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800S and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800S 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2100MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800S +1938%

8.602 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800S

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

Mobility Radeon

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

-

2100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

134.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

17.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

55W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

M88

-

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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